Foreign Policy
September 22, 2011
This week's execution of Troy Davis has provoked an international outcry and renewed debate in the United States over the death penalty. With the fifth-most executions per year of any country, America finds itself on a list with some of the world's worst human rights abusers.
CHINA: Number of executions: Thousands -- reliable statistics are hard to come by.
IRAN: Number of executions: 252 in 2010
NORTH KOREA: Number of executions: 60 in 2010
YEMEN: Number of executions: 53 in 2010
UNITED STATES: Number of executions: 46 in 2010, 35 so far in 2011
All figures from Amnesty International unless otherwise noted.
